£45,000 plus excellent benefits, bonus and career opportunities / 1 or 2 days per week in the office
A leading technology strong professional services company seek an experienced Business Analyst to be responsible for gathering and understanding the business needs of their organisation within specific projects and operational improvement initiatives.
The role of Business Analyst is integral to the organisation and will entail continuous improvement in efficiency and effectiveness for the business, both for customers and others within the company. Your job will be to deliver projects to support the company in meeting its objectives. This role will suit someone who enjoys working in a fast paced changing environment with complex systems and complex business problems.
Big ambitions. Big investment. Big changes. They’ve a lot to offer IT and project professionals. They’ve already grown tenfold in the past couple of years. Now they are beginning a £106 million transformation programme – and they can’t wait for what comes next, as part of an evolution so huge it’ll change the way they do things forever. There’s a buzz across our business. And IT, analytics and projects are at the heart of it all.
Job Overview for the Business Analyst position:
- As a Business Analyst you will be responsible for gathering and understanding the business needs of our organisation within specific projects and operational improvement initiatives.
- You will work with their Project Managers and IT teams/business teams, to ensure that requirements are understood, validated and accurately translated into system implementations and that business processes are optimised where appropriate.
- You will be working across a range of small, medium and large-scale projects, complex and simple, and with a range of company directorates and working with small to global suppliers.
Your duties as a Business Analyst will also include:
- You will be tasked with analysing business processes within the company and recommending projects to improve the effectiveness of those processes.
- Contributing to business cases to underpin business projects and advising Senior Management Assisting in creating IT solutions and testing IT systems.
- You will provide / contribute to staff training of the systems implemented.
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, user stories scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed:
Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural and clear language. - Collaborate with architects, developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
- Be the business analysis liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
- Identify business process improvement opportunities and influence stakeholders to potentially realise them through process redesign and system improvements.
- Work closely with the Business Change Managers to ensure a user-centric approach to implementation and embedding of new processes and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain a network of advocates for business improvement.